Inspirational Quotations by Leo Buscalia
- They may avoid suffering and sorrow,
But they simply cannot learn,
Feel, change, grow, love or live.
- To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
- Don't brood.
Get on with living and loving.
You don't have forever.
- Don't smother each other.
No one can grow in shade.
- Death is a challenge.
It tells us not to waste time...
It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
- If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement,
we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
- Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love,
you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
- There are two big forces at work, external and internal.
We have very little control over external forces such as
tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain.
What really matters is the internal force.
How do I respond to those disasters?
Over that I have complete control.
- Find the person who will love you because of your differences
and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
- What we call the secret of happiness is
no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
- What love we've given, we'll have forever.
What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
- Change is the end result of all true learning.
- Your talent is God's gift to you.
What you do with it is your gift back to God.
- A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
- Love always creates, it never destroys.
In this lie's man's only promise.
- Only the weak are cruel.
Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
- Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and
without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
- Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
- I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things...
I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
- It's not enough to have lived.
We should be determined to live for something.
May I suggest that it be creating joy for others,
Sharing what we have for the betterment of person kind,
Bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
- Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile,
a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- I believe that you control your destiny,
that you can be what you want to be.
You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it,
I won't behave his way anymore.
I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I
have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.'
- The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower,
share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's,
smile at someone and receive a smile in return,
are to me continual spiritual exercises.
- We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.